200 Stories for Missouri's 2021 Bicentennial

Frank "Scotty" Rees poses for a photo in his meat processing cooler. Scotty is an older white male with white hair and clear round glasses. He wears a gray shirt, denim overalls, with a green ball cap. A white apron with an R protects his clothing from the butchering process, a piece of meat in his right hand and a knife in his left. Behind him is pork drying on a shelf, the foreground of the photo features slices of pork.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, December 2021

200 Stories, December 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts shared 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We kicked…

Photographed at a Jefferson Landing performance in 2017, master banjo player Van Colbert and apprentice Cindy Parry. Vance Colbert sits left, he is an elderly white male with a longer white beard. He wears thin metal circular eyeglasses, a light brown fedora. He wears a neon yellow printed shirt and a brown vest, light blue jeans, and hightop black converse shoes. He plays banjo while looking at his apprentice Cindy Parry, right. Cindy Parry is an elderly white woman with greying pixie cut hair. She wears a short sleeve purple and orange plaid button down, a pair of denim jeans, and brown cowboy boots. Cindy holds a banjo and is looking down in front of herself.

200 STORIES, FEATURING VAN COLBERT

Ahead of the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, the National Endowment for the Arts seeded folklife programs across the country, leading to our own folk and traditional arts program anchored at the University of Missouri. In Missouri’s…

200 STORIES, FEATURING DR. JAMES PRICE

Dwayne Bosman photographed in black and white beside his apprentice. Bosman appears on the left side of the photo. Bosman is a Black male with short black hair, he wears an long-sleeve black shirt as well as long black pants. In his hands is a saxophone, which he is playing. Beside Bosman appears his apprentice, who is a lighter skinned Black male wearing a black newsboy cap. The apprentice wears a light colored sweater over a black turtleneck, dark pants with a black belt. The apprentice also holds and is playing a saxophone. In front of the pair is a black music stand, another saxophone resting on the floor beside it.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, November 2021

200 Stories, November 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We…

Photographed standing beside one another under an outdoor pavilion, Wendi Wald left and Dona McKinney. Wendi Wald is a lighter skinned Native American woman with long brown hair braided in two plats going down her chest, they have white circular ribbons at the end. She wears a pair of black sunglasses and a long black dress with Native patchwork designs on the sleeve and hems. Beside her Dona McKinney stands with one arm over Wendi's shoulder. Dona is a lighter skinned Native American woman, she wears a longsleeve plaid shirt buttoned halfway, a white tank top beneath that and a light wash denim skirt.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, October 2021

200 Stories, October 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We…

A black and white pamphlet cover. From top to bottom the pamphlet reads: A Master of Metal, by Jeff Joiner, Rural Missouri Magazine. Guy McConnell uses ancient techniques and some modern tools to make mysterious Damascus steel-. In the center of the pamphlet taking up most of the cover is a black and white photo og Guy McConnell. Guy is an elderly white male with white hair and a white mustache. He wears a white baseball cap, a light short sleeved button down shirt, and a working apron covering his outfit. He holds a black pen-like object in one hand, the other rests on the table in front of him.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, September 2021

200 Stories, September 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We…

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, August 2021

200 Stories, August 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We…

Photographed in black and white, from left to right appears Beto Lopez and his apprentice Antonio Sierra, Jr. Beto is a middle-aged Latino man, he has curly black hair which falls over his forehead, and wears a light sweater with darker pants. Beto holds a trumpet to his mouth, eyes closed in concentration as he blows into the instrument. Beside him on the couch is his apprentice Antionio, a younger Latino man with a long black mullet. He is looking up from his own trumpet to something right of the camera.

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, JULY 2021

200 Stories, July 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We…

Photographed in black and white, Roger Curry sits in the foreground of the photo. Roger is a middle-aged tan skinned man, he appears wearing a cap which reads "BOSCH Spark Plugs" wearing dark aviator style glasses and a light colored short sleeve workshirt. Roger appears posing for the photo with a smile, he holds a "U" shaped basket handle in both hands. Behind him appears a pick up truck with camper shell, beside three other vehicles

200 Stories for Missouri’s Bicentennial, JUNE 2021

200 Stories, June 2021 #ShowMeFolk #200Stories #Missouri2021 #Missouri200 In Missouri’s bicentennial year, Missouri Folk Arts will share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021 about folk and traditional arts in the Show Me State. We…

200 STORIES, FEATURING MARIDETH SISCO

As Missouri Folk Arts staff continues to share 200 stories over the course of 52 weeks in 2021, we occasionally will feature guest portraits composed by community scholars. Previously, we shared a story by Marideth…

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